To begin, it is important to introduce the Bliss Cook Book and provide background information about it. The Bliss Cook Book was made by the Alonzo O. Bliss Medical Company and published in Montreal. The cook book is in the English and French language. In the cookbook, there is no mention of what year it was published. However, the company operated in Montreal between 1915-25, so the cookbook would have been published within that time frame. The cookbook wanted to help housewives “look after the Health of the Family, as well as the Kitchen Economy.” The target audience of the cook book was working and middle class housewives and mothers, who were working with small food budgets, but still need to provide healthy meals for their family. The cookbook has a wide variety of recipe sections: Invalid Cookery, The Best Way to Cook Eggs, Old Fashioned Southern Preserves, Soups, Cakes, Icing and Fillings, Candies, Salads, Pies, Pickles and Sauces, and Tasty Desserts. There are a few images in the cookbook. It contains drawn portraits of customers, who have alleged tried Bliss Native Herbs, the Company's medicine, and given positive testimonies for it. There are also cartoon drawings of: personified eggs jumping into a boiling pot of water; two white housewives, boiling a caldron over a fireplace, while watching the time; and an overweight black women playing the manny role. The cookbook mainly calls for ingredients that are affordable, but do not have nutritional values such as sugar, milk, butter, flour, and eggs.